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“Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument.”

Hard Belief Particular Argument Overcoming Fundamentals Assumption Logical Yield Irrational Irrational Beliefs Logical Arguments

Author:Thomas Campbell

“Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.”

Littles Together Taken Violence Overcoming Perseverance Persistence Accomplishment Yield Prevailing Perserverance Greek Philosopher Inspirational Perseverance Determination And Persistence Perseverence Dedication And Perseverance Perseverance Motivational

Book:Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography

“Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .”

Spirit Prayer Forget Sacrifice Overcoming Opposition Expenses Yield Fatigue Grudge Critical Spirit

Author:Maria Weston Chapman

“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”

Hard Spiritual Strong Water Inspiring Rocks Words Of Wisdom Yoga Rivers Overcoming Environmental Paradox Yield Fluid Wise Man Once Said Softness Rigidity Tao Te Ching

Author:Laozi

“One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another yields no retreating inch, and the wind that would destroy him lifts him as readily to the heights. We are not measured by the trials we meet, only by those we overcome.”

Men Faces Time Fall Wind Overcoming Adversity Trials Lifts Height Yield One Man One Time Inches Chill Kites

Author:David O. McKay

“The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their enemies without strife. The greatest directors of men are those who yield place to others. This is called the Virtue of not striving, the capacity for directing mankind; this is being the compeer of Heaven. It was the highest goal of the ancients.”

Men Heaven Goal Loses Enemy Virtue Mankind Humility Directors Highest Capacity Overcoming Strive Soldier Fighter Yield Temper Strife Conqueror Lowliness

Author:Laozi

“The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.”

Opportunity Policy Overcoming Hot Raises Perseverance Storm Strikes Iron Yield Life Opportunity

Book:Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.

Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.

“Yield and overcome; Bend and be straight; Empty and be full; Wear out and be new; Have little and gain; Have much and be confused. ...The ancients say, "Yield and overcome." Is that an empty saying? Be really whole, And all things will come to you.”

Littles Whole Gains All Things Empty Overcoming Confusion Confused Emptiness Yield Confusing

Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching

“But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them.”

Ifs Men Giving Race Subjects Thousand Overcoming Twenties Jew Yield Inches Testimony Payment Pernicious Hardened Magistrates Usury

Book:The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther

Source: The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther

“The Christian soldier must avoid two evils - he must not faint or yield in the time of fight, and after a victory he must not wax insolent and secure. When he has overcome, he is so to behave himself as though he were presently again to be assaulted. For Satan’s temptations like the waves of the sea, do follow one in the neck of the other”

Two Christian Fighting Evil Sea Victory Overcoming Soldier Wave Temptation Secure Behave Satan Necks Yield Insolent Two Evils

Author:George Downame